Email from Iinet received this morning:

Dear Mr,

Your new broadband service is now active!

If you have bundled with phone or VOIP, they will be activated shortly.

Woohoo!!

First order of business was of course to connect to my brand spanking new ADSL2+ account with my recently firmware upgraded (to be ADSL2+ compliant) D-Link DSL-G604T ADSL router. Successful!

Like any geek I needed to test out the line speeds:

Pre ADSL2+ result:

Test run on 16/11/2006 @ 11:28 PM

Mirror: Optus
Test type: ADSL

Your connection speed:

kbps: 636.28
KB/s: 79.54
Mbps: 0.64

Post ADSL2+ results:

[ 600 kB Test ]

Test run on 24/02/2007 @ 08:54 AM

Mirror: iiNet Perth
Data: 600 KB
Test Time: 1.5 secs

Your line speed is 3.26 Mbps (3256 kbps).
Your download speed is 407 KB/s (0.4 MB/s).

[ 3 MB test ]

Test run on 24/02/2007 @ 08:55 AM

Mirror: iiNet Perth
Data: 3 MB
Test Time: 4.89 secs

Your line speed is 5.01 Mbps (5008 kbps).
Your download speed is 626 KB/s (0.61 MB/s).

[ 9 MB test ]

Test run on 24/02/2007 @ 09:00 AM

Mirror: iiNet Perth
Data: 9 MB
Test Time: 14.97 secs

Your line speed is 5.05 Mbps (5050 kbps).
Your download speed is 631 KB/s (0.62 MB/s).

[ 15 MB test ]

Test run on 24/02/2007 @ 09:01 AM

Mirror: iiNet Perth
Data: 15 MB
Test Time: 22.36 secs

Your line speed is 5.61 Mbps (5605 kbps).
Your download speed is 701 KB/s (0.68 MB/s).

[ Upload test ]

You uploaded 1 MB bytes in 18.17 seconds.

kbps: 462.06
KB/s: 57.76
Mbps: 0.46

…

It’s safe to say that the upgrade to ADSL2+ was definitely worth it!

I also upgraded my wordpress theme and fixed the IE comment posting issue.

Today is already a great day :)